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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About

Bioengineering Systems | MIT Faculty

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Today MIT is a world-class educational institution. Teaching and research-with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle-continue to be its primary purpose. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.

Ali Khademhosseini

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Harvard Medical School

[email protected] | 617.768.8395

Research Area(s): Micro- and nanoscale technologies to control cellular behavior with particular emphasis in developing microscale biomaterials and engineering systems for tissue engineering and drug delivery.


Bruce Tidor

Biological Engineering Division and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

[email protected] | 617.253.7258

Research Area(s): Analysis of complex biological systems at both the molecular level and the systems level


Charles Cooney

Chemical Engineering

[email protected] | 617.253.3108

Research Area(s): Biochemical engineering

Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Co-Director, Sloan Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry (POPI) Faculty Director, Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.


Daniel Wang

Chemical Engineering

[email protected] | 617.253.2126

Research Area(s):Recombinant protein production using Escherichia coli to increase protein expression; Animal cell culture with emphasis in the increased production of recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies; Stabilization of proteins using quantum mechanics


Dava Newman

Engineering Systems Division

[email protected] | 617.253.8799

Research Area(s): Aerospace Biomedical Engineering: Biomechanics, Control, and Dynamics; Human Factors; Engineering Systems and Design; Space Policy

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Dianne K. Newman

John & Dorothy Wilson Professor of Biology and Geobiology, MIT Departments of Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences

[email protected] | 617.324.2770 | website

Research area(s): Electron-transfer mechanisms; the co-evolution of life and Earth; the evolution of photosynthesis; physiological functions of redox active “secondary” metabolites.


Elly Nedivi

Brain & Cognitive Sciences

[email protected]

Research Area(s): Synaptic Plasticity; Candidate Plasticity Genes


Fiona Murray

Sloan School of Management

[email protected] | 617.258.0628

Research Area(s): Innovation and entrepreneurship with an emphasis on the life science sector


Fred Bowman

Health Sciences & Technology

[email protected] | 617.253.7426

Research Area(s):


Hugh Herr

Associate Professor, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor, MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology

[email protected] | 617.258.6574 | website

Research area(s): Biomechatronics/biomechanics, biological motion control, advancement of human rehabilitation and augmentation technology.


K. Dane Wittrup

Chemical and Biological Engineering

[email protected] | 617.253.4578

Research Area(s): Molecular Bioengineering, Protein Engineering, Therapeutic Protein Biotechnology


Ken Oye

Political Science

[email protected] | 617.253.3412

Research Area(s): International relations, political economy, and science and technology policy


Ken Zolot

Sloan School of Management

[email protected] | 617.253.6481

Research Area(s): Entrepreneurship, early-stage startups; Innovation and technology transfer, licensing of university IP; Information Technology, network security, internet infrastructure;


Kristala Prather

Chemical Engineering

[email protected] | 617.253.1950

Research Area(s): Design and assembly of recombinant microorganisms for the production of small molecules


Larry Young

Aero/Astro

[email protected] | 617.253.7759

Research Area(s): Bioastronautics, aerospace human factors, long duration space flight, artificial gravity


Luis Perez-Breva

Research Scientist and Lecturer, School of Engineering, Innovation Teams

[email protected] | 617.253.0472

Research Area(s): Innovation processes and dynamics, development of innovation ecosystems, innovation ecosystems in energy, technology transfer, computational biology, applications of artificial intelligence/machine learning, scientific computing.


Martha Gray

Health Sciences & Technology

[email protected] | 617.253.1554

Research Area(s):Cartilage degeneration


Paula Hammond

Chemical Engineering

[email protected] | 617.258.7577

Research Area(s): Macromolecular design and synthesis; Directed assembly using surface templates; Nanoscale design of biomaterials; Block copolymers, asymmetric morphologies; Liquid crystalline polymeric materials


Robert Langer

Chemical Engineering

[email protected] | 617.253.3107

Research Area(s): Drug delivery; Biomaterials; Tissue engineering; Biotechnology; Immobilized enzymes; Biomedical engineering


Sangeeta Bhatia

Health Sciences and Technology, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

[email protected] | 617.324.0221

Research Area(s): Multiscale Regenerative Technologies

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Stan Finkelstein

Engineering Systems Division

[email protected] | 617.253.8014

Research Area(s): Development and evaluation of medical practice and technology; Health economics and policy


Steve Massaquoi

Electrical Engineering Computer Sciences

[email protected] | 617.253.2161

Research Area(s):Human neurological function and dysfunction using electrical and mechanical engineering principles and techniques


Stuart Madnick

Engineering Systems Division

[email protected] | 617.253.6671

Research Area(s): Information integration technologies, semantic connectivity among disparate distributed information systems, database technology, software project management, internet applications, and the strategic use of information technology


Subra Suresh

School of Engineering

[email protected] | 617.253.3320 | website

Research Area(s): Nanomechanics of biological cells and molecules, and human disease states, Structure-Mechanical Property-Disease connections in the context of P. falciparum malaria, hereditary blood cell disorders and cancer, Computational simulations of cellular and molecular deformation and shape thermodynamics, High force optical tweezers studies of biological cells and human disease states, Nanostructured materials, Nanoindentation and microindentation


Thomas Allen

Engineering Systems Division
[email protected] | 617.253.6651

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